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Liberal Arts
International
Conference
2015
Conference Program
Looking Forward, Looking Back:
Transnational Perspectives on Globalization
1-3 February 2015
Doha, Qatar
ICTS
INITIATIVE IN
CULTURE
TECHNOLOGY &
SOCIETY
ICTS
INITIATIVE IN
CULTURE
TECHNOLOGY &
SOCIETY
Liberal Arts International Conference 2015 Schedule
Day 1 | February 1, 2015
6:00 – 7:00 AM
7:15 AM
8:00 – 9:00 AM
9:00 – 9:30 AM
9:30 – 10:30 AM
10:45 – 12:15 PM
12:30 – 1:45 PM
2:00 – 3:30 PM
3:45 PM
4:00 – 6:00 PM
6:00 PM
Breakfast at Hotel
Board Bus for Conference
Registration and Coffee in the HBKU Black Box Theatre
Welcome and Announcements in HBKU Cinema
Keynote Address in HBKU Cinema
Parallel Session I in HBKU Conference Rooms
Lunch at HBKU Cafeteria
Parallel Session II in HBKU Conference Rooms
Board Bus for MATHAF Museum in Education City
MATHAF Museum
Board Bus for Hotel
Day 2 | February 2, 2015
6:00 – 8:00 AM
8:00 AM
8:30 – 9:00 AM
9:00 – 10:00 AM
10:15 – 11:45 AM
12:00 – 1:00 PM
1:15 – 2:45 PM
3:00 PM
4:30 PM
5:30 – 9:30 PM
9:45 PM
Breakfast at Hotel
Board Bus for Conference
Coffee and Networking in area outside HBKU Cinema
Keynote Address in HBKU Cinema
Parallel Session III in HBKU Conference Rooms
Lunch at HBKU Cafeteria
Parallel Session IV in HBKU Conference Rooms
Board Bus for Hotel
Board Bus for optional trip to Souq Waqif
Souq Waqif
Board Bus for Hotel
Day 3 | February 3, 2015
6:00 – 8:00 AM
8:00 AM
8:30 – 9:00 AM
9:00 – 10:00 AM
10:15 – 11:45 AM
12:00 – 1:00 PM
1:15 – 2:45 PM
3:00 – 3:15 PM
3:30 PM
Breakfast at Hotel
Board Bus for Conference
Coffee and Networking in area outside HBKU Cinema
Keynote Address in HBKU Cinema
Parallel Session V in HBKU Conference Rooms
Lunch at HBKU Cafeteria
Parallel Session VI in HBKU Conference Rooms
Conference Wrap-Up in HBKU Cinema
Board Bus for Hotel
Schedule
DAY 1
Registration
(8:00 – 9:00 AM) HBKU Black Box Theatre
Welcome and Opening Remarks
(9:00 – 9:45 AM) HBKU Cinema
Keynote Speaker (9:30 – 10:30 AM) HBKU Cinema
“Global Corporate Decisions, Local Impacts, and the Need for
Economic Literacy”
David Jolliffe
Professor and Brown Chair in English Literacy
University of Arkansas, USA
Parallel Session I (10:45 – 12:15 PM)
Panel 1 A Shift of the Script: Transnational Storytelling
Room 4
and (Re)Presentation
Chair: Nancy Small
Texas A&M University at Qatar
Panelists: Belinda Amaya
Texas A&M University at Qatar
Texas Tech University, USA
Courtney Beggs
Bridgewater State University
University of Massachusetts, USA
Christina Cedillo
Northeastern State University, USA
Danielle Saad
Alvernia University, USA
Day 1 | February 1 2015
Panel 2 Connections with Technology, Social Media,
and Education
Room 6
Chair: Michael Telafici
Texas A&M University at Qatar
Cultivating Learning-Centric Adaptive Minds: Acceptance of New Technology
Beena Ahmed
Texas A&M University at Qatar
Takashi Yamauchi
Texas A&M University at College Station, USA
Working Through Social Networking: A Burkean Rhetorical Study
Joseph Williams
Texas A&M University at Qatar
Narcissism and Ethnocentrism in Digital Rhetoric
Jason Edwards
Georgia Gwinnett College, USA
Panel 3
Room 5
Questions, Ethical Quandaries, and Legal Dilemmas
Chair: Deanna Rasmussen
Texas A&M University at Qatar
What Do You Mean by Informed Consent? Introducing a Foreign Construct
to a Traditional Setting
Tanya Kane
Northwestern University in Qatar
A Study on Academic Integrity Among Students and Teachers at Jazan University
Gamil Alamrani
Jazan University, Saudi Arabia
Interacting With the International Legal System: Climate Justice Claims
in Multilateral Climate Change Negotiations
Margaretha Wewerinke
University of Cambridge, UK
Lunch (12:30 – 1:45 PM)
Day 1 | February 1, 2015
Parallel Session II (2:00 – 3:30 PM)
Panel 4 From iPhones to MOOCs:
Technology and the Literature Classroom
Room 5
Chair: Amy Hodges
Texas A&M University at Qatar
Panelists: Chris Anson,
North Carolina State University, USA
Evonne (Kay) Halasek
The Ohio State University, USA
Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar
Northwestern University in Qatar
Panel 5
Room 4
Transnational Perspectives on Citizenship and Indigeneity
Chair: Martinus (Mark) van de Logt
Texas A&M University at Qatar
Building Bridges – A Cross-Cultural Look at Communication Between Indigenous
Peoples and Academia
Anne Grob
Leipzig University, Germany
The European “Narrative” on Culture in a Globalized World: From an Agenda
to Action
Matina Magkou
University of Deusto, Spain
The Citizenship Logics of Ethnic Return Migration in Kazakhstan: Privileged
Exclusion in a Post-Soviet Context
Cynthia Werner
Texas A&M University at College Station, USA
Day 1 | February 1 2015
Panel 6
Room 6
Media and Communication in a Globalized World
Chair: Curtis Farmer
Texas A&M University at Qatar
Global Media Culture and Changeable Infrastructure of Musical Activity:
A Look from Uzbekistan
Latofat Tolibjonova
State University of Arts and Culture of Uzbekistan
Subverting the North-South Flow of TV Production: The Case of Brazil’s Cable TV
Antonio LaPastina
Texas A&M University at College Station, USA
Civil Conflict and the Meaning of Media, Publics and Global Citizenship
Natalie Khazaal
Texas A&M University at College Station, USA
Day 1 | February 1, 2015
DAY 2
Coffee and Networking
(8:30 – 9:00 AM) HBKU Cinema
Keynote Speaker (9:00 – 10:00 AM) HBKU Cinema
“Qatar National Research Fund Presentation”
Michael Reksulak
Director, Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities
Qatar National Research Fund
Parallel Session III (10:15 – 11:45 AM)
Panel 7
Room 4
Heritage, History, and Hospitality
Chair: Mark Gleason
Community College of Qatar
Historical “Visions” of Tourism in Qatar: The Role of Hotels, Heritage,
and Hospitality
Jared McCormick
Harvard University, USA
Gadamer-Ricoeur Hermeneutics and the Narrative of Hospitality in Islam:
Towards Inter-Cultural Dialogue in the Age of Globalization
Irfan Muhammad
University of Karachi, Pakistan
Seeking Dialogue and Collaboration – Personal Reflections Involving Historic
Museum and Archival Collections from Native North America
Rainer Hatoum
Freie Universität, Germany
Day 2 | February 2, 2015
Panel 8
Room 5
Identity, Citizenship, and Society
Chair: Trinidad Rico
Texas A&M University at Qatar
Identity Construction and Sense of Place among Second Generation Residents
in Qatar
Erik Helin
Carnegie Mellon University – Qatar
Thomas Mitchell
Carnegie Mellon University – Qatar
Silvia Pessoa
Carnegie Mellon University – Qatar
Citizens of the Future: Third Culture Kids and the Globalization of National
and Cultural Identity
Colby Seay
Texas A&M University at College Station, USA
Identity Formation in a Globalized World: The Case of Koreans in Japan
Kazuko Suzuki
Texas A&M University at College Station, USA
Panel 9
Room 6
Pedagogical Approaches to Writing and Literature
Chair: Sherry Ward
Texas A&M University at Qatar
Assimilation, Accommodation, or Separation: Teaching and Tutoring
English Writing
Jeannie Waller
University of Arkansas, USA
Teaching Multicultural Composition through Graphic Novels
Stephanie Scott
Northern Oklahoma College, USA
Using Global Literature to Teach Composition
Sarah Hudson
University of Arkansas, USA
Lunch (12:00 – 1:00 PM)
Day 2 | February 2, 2015
Parallel Session IV (1:15 – 2:45 PM)
Panel 10 Honor and Academic Integrity in Comparative
Room 4
Perspective
Chair: Mysti Rudd
Texas A&M University at Qatar
This panel is composed of students and professors from Washington and Lee
University and Texas A&M University at Qatar. The audience will be invited
to participate in this discussion.
Mark Rush
Washington and Lee University, USA
Alexandra Eichenbaum
Washington and Lee University, USA
Lauren Howard
Washington and Lee University, USA
Wilson Miller
Washington and Lee University, USA
Amy Hodges
Texas A&M University at Qatar
Mysti Rudd
Texas A&M University at Qatar
Mohammed Al-Boinin
Texas A&M University at Qatar
Sharouq Al-Malki
Texas A&M University at Qatar
Muhammed Ghufran Rafique
Texas A&M University at Qatar
Day 2 | February 2, 2015
Panel 11
Room 5
Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Globalization
Chair: Mark Gleason
Community College of Qatar
Chinese Muslims in the Era of Steam and Print: Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement
and the Journey of Its Message to China
Zeynab Hale Eroglu Sager
Harvard University, USA
The New Mediterraneanization and Ottoman Historical Fiction in the Balkans
Eralda Lameborshi
Texas A&M University at College Station, USA
Translating Cuisine, Translating Culture: The Hogwarts Menu in Britain
and Serbia
Andrea Stojilkov
Belgrade University, Serbia
Panel 12 Imagined Continent, Artificial Nations, Transnational
Room 6
Communities: “African” Realities Across Nations
and Continents
Chair: John Littlefield
Texas A&M University at Qatar
American Africans and the Development of Home and Homeland: The Case
of the Sisters of Sierra Leone of North Texas
Violet Johnson
Texas A&M University at College Station, USA
The Role of African Communities in the Transformation of the Landscape
of Contemporary European Megacities: The Case of Paris
Philip Ojo
Agnes Scott College, USA
African Migration: Argentina the (New) El Dorado
Alain Lawo-Sukam
Texas A&M University at College Station, USA
Day 2 | February 2, 2015
DAY 3
Coffee and Networking
(8:30 – 9:00 AM) HBKU Cinema
Keynote Speaker (9:00 – 10:00 AM) HBKU Cinema
“Thermal Modernities and the Entangled Future of Air”
Tim Winter
Professor and Research Chair of Cultural Heritage
Deakin University, Australia
Parallel Session V (10:15 – 11:45 AM)
Panel 13
Room 6
Cross-Cultural Encounters with Globalization
Chair: Joseph Williams
Texas A&M University at Qatar
Exploring Changing Dalit Culture: Impacts of Globalization
Robin Seelan
Loyola College, India
Chinese in Africa: An Analysis of Chinese Restaurants' Employers and Employees
in Lusaka, Zambia
Zhongwen Zhang
Oxford University, UK
Local Avatars of Global Forms: Circulation of Research in Nepal in the Early 1950s
Pratyoush Onta
Martin Chautari Research and Policy Institute, Nepal
Day 3 | February 3, 2015
Panel 14
Room 4
Perspectives on Globalized and Transnational Education
Chair: Fatma Hasan
Texas A&M University at Qatar
Cultivating Cosmopolitan Arabs? – Humanities Education and Global Awareness
in the Universities of Arabian Gulf States
Mira Al Hussein
Zayed University, United Arab Emirates
Shaojin Chai
Ministry of Culture
Missing Linkages: The Ironies and Ambiguities of Transnational Education
in a Globalized World
Gwenn Okruhlik
Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore
How Does Liberal Arts Education Transform the Globalization Process in Africa?
Marcia Grant
Ashesi University, Ghana
Panel 15
Room 5
Business, Science, and Math in the Middle East and Beyond
Chair: Lorelei Blackburn
Michigan State University, USA
Fostering Small and Medium Size Enterprise (SME) Development in Qatar
Sammy Hassan
Georgetown University in Qatar
Matea Malikanovic
Georgetown University in Qatar
Transnational Biology and Astronomy in the Gulf: Globalization and Science
in the Middle East
Jörg Matthias Determann
Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar
Providing Space for Critical Conscience in the Mathematics Classroom
Summer Bateiha
Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar
Lunch (12:00 – 1:00 PM)
Day 3 | February 3, 2015
Parallel Session VI (1:15 – 2:45 PM)
Panel 16 Investigating the Intersections of Language, Culture,
Room 4
and Education
Chair: Michael Telafici
Texas A&M University at Qatar
Attitudes Towards Different Varieties of English: University Students in Qatar
Zohreh Eslami
Texas A&M University at College Station, USA
Leslie Seawright
Texas A&M University at Qatar
A Cultural Other in Transnational Education: Impact of Globalisation on
Student/Teacher Identities
Magdalena Rostron,
Academic Bridge Program, Qatar
Cultural Conflation: Encounters with the Global Education Paradigm
Jeremy Cook,
Northern Oklahoma College, USA
Panel 17
Room 5
Perspectives on Gender, Heritage, and Ethics
Chair: Bea Amaya
Texas A&M University at Qatar / Texas Tech University
Qatari Women and Majalis Al-Hareem: Heritage in a Globalized World
Jocelyn Sage Mitchell
Northwestern University in Qatar
Christina Paschyn
Northwestern University in Qatar
Birds in Heaven: Lost Babies and Other Fetal Beings in Qatar
Susie Kilshaw
University College London, UK
Changing Women’s Roles: Filipino Migrant Care Workers and Their Female
Employers in Saudi Arabia
Nada Elyas
Taibah University, Saudi Arabia
Day 3 | February 3, 2015
Panel 18 Educating the Whole Student: Pedagogies Spurred
Room 6
by Globalization
Chair: Liticia Salter
Texas A&M University at Qatar
Stasis and Newness: Globalized Pedagogy and Its Impact on the Imagination
and Innovation of the Periphery
Yvonne Eaton
Community College of Qatar
Undoing the Myopia of Western Education: Looking for a Globalized Curricula
on Political Trauma
Jennifer Job
Oklahoma State University, USA
Traumatized Students: A Practical Approach to Classroom Teaching
Lorelei Blackburn
Michigan State University, USA
Maheen Hyder
Texas A&M University at Qatar
Holistic Education Beyond All Borders
Robert Dickson Crane
Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies, Shaykh Hamad University, Qatar
Day 3 | February 3, 2015